Metal Prices: Annual Forecasting
MetalMiner's 2025 Annual Metals Outlook
This U.S.-centric annual buying guide consolidates our 12-month view and provides buying organizations with a complete understanding of the fundamental factors driving metal prices and a detailed forecast that can be used when sourcing metals for 2024 — including expected average prices, support and resistance levels.
Metal buying organizations use the metal prices annual forecasting outlook to:
- Identify steel price, stainless steel price and aluminum price trends
- Set their “average purchase metal prices” for the following year
- Better time long term contracting price locks
- Better communicate high level category and commodity strategies to executive teams
The MetalMiner Annual Metals Outlook report, with quarterly updates, contains the following:
- Executive Summary by the MetalMiner Research Team
- Commodities Market Analysis
- Industrial Metals Market Review
- Key Price Drivers Assessment
- Outlooks and buying strategy for aluminum, nickel, copper, lead, zinc, tin, HRC, CRC, HDG and steel plate
Case Studies
For a Tier 2 automotive company, MetalMiner generated a 7.3% savings on an annual stainless steel buy generating over $1 million in savings by introducing new global and domestic suppliers to the supply base.
For another transportation OEM MMO subscriber, the MetalMiner team completed an add-on advisory project to benchmark existing category management processes and provide strategies to identify and implement specific opportunities to generate cost savings across carbon steel plate, sheet and aluminum. The company generated double digit percentage savings, resulting in multi-million-dollar annual savings.
A springs and washer manufacturer decreased their inventory by 8.5% after overbuying material in a tight supply market. The company began to correctly read the long-term trends and adjusted their buying strategy.
Covered Metals Include:
Aluminum
Copper
Nickel
Lead
Zinc
Tin
Carbon
Steel: HRC, CRC, HDG, Plate
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Forecast
Look at Our Forecast Track Record
Ignore the noise, but know the trend. MetalMiner’s track record on metal price forecasts by calling a bullish market or calling a bearish market means buying organizations can always generate cost savings or cost avoidance.
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- Global price points + Global team access
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- Charting tools + Streamlined Management Reports
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- Monthly Metals Index Report
Monthly Metals Outlook Package (MMO)
- Forecast price ranges
- 12 Monthly Metals Outlook reports released monthly
- Monthly buying strategies
- Metals include nickel, copper, zinc, tin, lead, aluminum, HRC, CRC, HDG and steel plate
Annual Outlook Package
(AO)
- Forecasted price ranges
- Full annual outlook report for projected price points
- 3 follow-up update Annual Outlook reports released quarterly
- Projected long term average price forecast for budgeting; adjusted quarterly.
- Metals include nickel, copper, zinc, tin, lead, aluminum, HRC, CRC, HDG and steel plate
(Best Deal) MMO & AO Bundle
- Forecasted price ranges
- Full annual outlook report for projected price points
- 3 follow-up Annual Outlook update reports released quarterly
- 12 Monthly Metals Outlook reports released monthly
- Monthly buying strategies
- Metals include nickel, copper, zinc, tin, lead, aluminum, HRC, CRC, HDG and steel plate
